DWNLD, the publishing platform that takes any website and seamlessly turns it into an app, has today announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners. The platform, which was created by cofounder and CEO Alexandra Keating and cofounder Fritz Lanman, allows any web publisher to easily transfer all of their content over to a native app, without any coding… Read More
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Barcelona-based Typeform has landed a $15 million Series A round of financing. The round — a pretty sizable one for a South European startup — was led by Index Ventures, with participation from existing investors Point Nine Capital, Connect Ventures and RTA Ventures, as well as super angels including Anthony Casalena, CEO of Squarespace. Read More
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Fresh off of a $60 million deal with Shanghai-based drone maker Yuneec, Intel is continuing to ramp up its investment in Chinese tech startups after the U.S. firm revealed that it has pumped $67 million into eight companies in the country. Read More
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HelloTech has confirmed that the company just closed a $12.5M Series A led by Madrona Venture Group with participation from Upfront Ventures, CrossCut Ventures, and Accel Partners. This round brings total funding to $17M, after a $4.5M seed round in February.
TechCrunch first reported news that the company was raising a Series A in late August.
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HappyFresh, the grocery delivery service that opened its doors in Southeast Asia earlier this year, has landed a $12 million Series A round to develop its service and further expand across the region. Read More
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Envoy, which provides early elderly care with a concierge service for tasks like delivering groceries, has raised $3 million and is launching today. Envoy’s pitch is that it provides a one-to-one concierge with seniors that don’t quite need full-time assistance, but periodically need help with tasks like running errands and for in-home help like plumbing. These tasks are… Read More
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Lumity, which devises and recommends health care plans to employers by comparing employee profiles against its own historical data, said today that it has raised $14 million.
Social+Capital led the round, with True Ventures and Rock Health participating. Read More
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RoomKey, a company that lets hotels offer their guests a suite of mobile guest services, has closed a $1M seed round led by 500 Startups, 500 Mobile Collective, and Horizon Partners. While large brands like Hilton and Starwood began rolling out mobile check in about a year ago, most of this technology is still too costly for boutique hotels to deploy. Enter RoomKey. The… Read More
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As Square gears up for a public listing that may come as soon as next month, another startup that makes point-of-sale systems for restaurants and other retailers has raised a big round of funding. Lightspeed POS, a startup based out of Canada that provides apps and other services for managing and selling inventory across both online and offline shopfronts, has picked up $61 million, money… Read More
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